Winter QUARTER
2022
Picture Perfect
Course Overview
ARTIFACTS
Snow fun
An excerpt from a collection of photos from a Capital Hill scavenger hunt.
Despite the lack of snowfall, I still found ways to encourage myself to get outside!
Seattle is “SAD” come wintertime. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects many university students each year, as the sunny days and cool temperatures leave and gift us with nearly constant rain, cold (but not freezing) days, and no sight of the sun for days or weeks at a time.
My strategy coming into college was to get one of those fun SAD lamps, as that’s what all the online blogs and YouTube videos suggested. However, artificial light was just not working for me – nothing could beat actually being outside.
Thus, alongside my many patient friends, we made it a point to get outside often during the winter: playing spikeball in the rain, walking to classes instead of bussing, and taking adventures like the one to Capitol Hill showcased in the picture.
The "Mean"ing
of life
An excerpt of the formula sheet I crafted for one of my QMETH 201 exams.
For all quizzes and exams, we were allowed one 8.5" by 11" formula sheet! I took great pride in making mine color coded and organized by type of applicable problem and level of depth I needed.
While this wasn't my best class, creating these "cheat sheets" turned out to be one of the best study methods I've found to help get me through college! Even for courses where we weren’t allowed a formula sheet or page of notes, creating these brief, but detailed, overviews of the course content proved to be an excellent to review old material, while focusing on the most important concepts and big ideas.
As someone who really didn’t have final exams in high school, taking many cumulative, highly weighted tests all in the span of a few days seemed daunting. However, with methods like my QMETH study sheets and a lot of Quizlet, I’ve been able to manage it efficiently!
A Pizza My Presentation
A few of my favorite slides from my final presentation for HONORS 231C.
HONORS 231C, also known as Gender, Diplomacy, and Human Rights, was my first "true" Honors class that I took at UW! The format was a bit surprising - three hours long, often virtual (because of COVID), and reading heavy, I wasn't prepared for the level of intensity of depth that this course would extend into.
All my hard work culminated in my final presentation (see left) where I discussed the topic of abortion in a predominately Catholic nation. Delving into the history, politics, and theology of Italy was a surprisingly intriguing experience - one that resulted in me spending hours narrowing down my final report instead of searching for items to add.
I’d always been a lengthy writer, but I’d never quite had this much difficulty narrowing down my word count. In the past, teachers were thrilled if you wrote over, but in college its penalized. This is understandable, as professors have hundreds of papers to read and grade instead of 25-50; however, the idea of not being able to write endlessly about something I was interested in was immensely frustrating. It was through assignments like this one where I began to learn that sometimes less is more. Words, arguments, and persuasion can be just as powerful without being as lengthy.